Jeff Fuchs
Canadian explorer
Jeff Fuchs is a Canadian explorer, mountaineer and writer. He gained prominence with his successful bid to become the first westerner to trek the entire Yunnan–Tibet Ancient Tea Horse Road, stretching almost six thousand kilometers through the Himalayas and a dozen cultures, documented in the book The Ancient Tea Horse Road: Travels with the Last of the Himalayan Muleteers (2008). He is also the acting Asia-Editor-at-Large for Outpost Magazine.
Biography
Fuchs is a Canadian citizen of English–Hungarian heritage, born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. As a child he spent considerable time in Switzerland, where a staunch love of the mountains and climbing were established in him. Fuchs graduated from Dawson College in Montreal with a degree in commercial fine-art photography. He is fluent in several languages, notably Mandarin and Tibetan. He divides his time between Canada, Shangri-La County, China, and Europe.
Fuchs has been published in World Geographic, Spanish Geographical Society, New Ideas, Outdoor Exploration, New Traveler, Silkroad Foundation, Outpost magazine, Kyoto Journal and The South China Morning Post among others.
He was an invited speaker 1st Annual North American Tea Conference in October 2010, to discuss the origins of tea and tea's ancient birthplace in southern Yunnan.
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